say, hey, jenna, you re feeling little more pain because you have a little bit more of the drd-2 gene. maybe i offer you a splicer to change your genes a little bit. that s where we re headed. i don t know if insurance will cover it. jenna: that is the big question. less potentially the treatment on given medication and maybe the way we treat people more when it comes to their genetic code? we might be able to. they re starting to do that in animal research. there is study in mit using something called crisper technology where they took a animal with a liver problem, based on single genetic abnormality and think corrected it. when you use that technology on a cell it cause as lot of disturbance. it is not ready for prime time in humans yet. i could sniff that out, with the drd-2 gene. jenna: like you copy it. like we edit some of our writing it would be like doing that for your genetic code. how would that work for a normal person, a normal situation. how would that be applied, where
it. the way the study was put together is essentially they were asked a question about how much pain they were feeling, and thin researchers were looking at their genes and trying to see if different people fet pain in certain way. they thought they found some sort of a pattern on that. if that came out to be case, and obviously further research needs to be done, would that change the way for example, you would prescribe pain medication? how would it impact how we treat people? it would impact greatly. i think you described that absolutely beautifully. they found the drd-1 gene, the drd-1 gene was 30% higher if pain didn t bother you. the drd-2 gene was, 25% higher if everything made you feel pain. so there is differences from one person to the next. and genes, probably help us determine it, based on now that we know the human genome. if in the future if i look down my medical crystal ball, into the future, i think we ll have a situation where i m growing to